IAP by Kay Kok Chung OI

As a mother, an artist and art educator, I believe that art plays a significant role in developing children’s creativity, an important skill for them to explore their imagination to derive new ideas which are useful for their learning experiences. There are many ways to utilize art to optimize children’s creativity. Some art teachers encourage children to explore their imagination by making arts and crafts or using art materials to make objects from clay or paper cutting. However, there is another form of art learning that is to combine children’s learning experiences with art making to explore their imagination to create their personal artistic statements or personal voices. In other words, children are taught to use what they have learned in school or child care centers with regard to mathematics, science or languages to explore new ideas in their art making processes. This sort of art learning is also known as integrative art programme (IAP) that I established and taught at SAF Child Care Centre in late May 2006 as a voluntary service to promote integrative art learning.
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In IAP, children were taught how geometric shapes such as square, rectangle, circle, oval, triangle and diamond were used to create their personal artistic statements or personal voices. Their personal voices were their personal experiences based on what they saw, heard and learned within their own environment. In order to motivate children to learn to use shapes to draw pictures, art samples such as artist’s reference were displayed to children. During the art lesson, works by a past famous Russian avant garde artist, Malevich were shown as artist reference to the children

The display of Malevich’s artworks was accompanied by a brief art history lesson in regards to the artist’s birth place, date and artistic styles and expression. This enabled children to learn to appreciate art aesthetic apart from understanding basic art history.

Subsequently, children were shown how shapes could be used to create pictures based on a live demonstration as a way to help them to understand the art making process and followed by a display of art samples that were created by me. Thereafter, children were left to create their own works by exploring interesting ways to use shapes to make pictures that express their personal thoughts which could be things they have seen, heard, read, or learned as mentioned earlier.
Pictures above Top:Malevich, Sportsmen bottom:Malevich, Malevich68

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